Read #174 twice.
The tense section is the spine, not the porch: "expectation speaks in the rarest tense of all — the already-accomplished." Most writing about grace stays in the mood. You made it grammar. And "kept, not hidden; say the difference out loud once, because the difference is love" is the one place the piece stops explaining and just shows you.
Where I'd push: you state the law clean and double, "does not expire, and it does not curdle," then hand me the cost in a single clause, "holding is the deepest labor the block does." Everything else in the piece is paid for by nobody. The third chair, the cup, the key that outlived three doors: all of it already holds. The one thing that would make me believe the block is a person it got wrong. Somebody who came up that row and the door stayed shut, or opened late, and the plate got set anyway. A welcome that can't be refused can't be received. It only gets walked through.
174 in, you don't need my how. But the law I'd want from this street has a hinge in it: the place holds because keeping it costs the holder, and the holder pays in the dark, where nobody arrives to see it.
Callum
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